2600 Homebrew of the Year 2007

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

Last year I ran a nomination thread for the HotY 2006 poll: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=99740

 

In 2007 there were fewer titles entering the AA store, according to my notes this is a complete list of new entries:

 

Bee-Ball by Ivan Machado
Colony 7 by Manuel Rotschkar
Elevators Amiss by Bob Montgomery
Encaved by Simon Quernhorst
Gingerbread Man by Fred Quimby
GoSub by Chris Read
Melbourne Tatty by Edward Griffiths
N.E.R.D.S. by Sam "|*BILLY$CLINT*|" Deiter
Raster Fahndung by Simon Quernhorst
Squish 'Em by Bob Montgomery
Stella's Stocking by Various
Sync by Simone Serra
The Last Ninja by Ryan Cope

 

So, instead of doing nominations, I thought to just have all of them enter the official HotY 2007 poll this time. It will be launched in early April, just like the previous two years: 2005 / 2006

 

Basically I'm posting the list now to A) make sure that I didn't forget anything and B) to give the authors a chance to bail out, in case they don't want to have their game participating in the poll.

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[vdub_bobby]

and C) so people can actually play some of them...have any copies of B-B, C7, GM, SE, SS, or Sync shipped yet? That's like half the list!

[+Nathan Strum]

Gingerbread Man was released at NWCGE, so at least some copies of that one are out there.

 

Don't forget The Last Ninja and N.E.R.D.S.

 

Also - is this limited to just 2600 homebrews? There are a few new 7800 ones, and Adventure II finally shipped this year for the 5200.

 

Interesting though how very little came out in the first half of the year. I thought more games came out than that, but I guess most of what I reviewed this year were older games I just hadn't picked up before.

[Cybergoth]

Don't forget The Last Ninja and N.E.R.D.S.

 

I didn't forget them, but they're disqualified since there's no ROMs available.

 

Also - is this limited to just 2600 homebrews?

 

Yup. The others can run their own show if they want to

[vdub_bobby]

Gingerbread Man was released at NWCGE, so at least some copies of that one are out there.

Good point, especially since I own one of those copies!

[+Nathan Strum]

I didn't forget them, but they're disqualified since there's no ROMs available.

Final ROMs aren't available (as far as I know) for Simon's two games, Sync, Stella's Stocking or Melbourne Tatty.

[Cybergoth]

I didn't forget them, but they're disqualified since there's no ROMs available.

Final ROMs aren't available (as far as I know) for Simon's two games, Sync, Stella's Stocking or Melbourne Tatty.

 

Hm... you're right, that rule might drastically reduce the number of choices. I didn't think that through to the end. Let's forget about the availabilty of ROMs then, I'll just add them to the list

[+batari]

Well, as great as I think Stella's Stocking is, can we really call it a 2007 release?

[Cybergoth]

Well, as great as I think Stella's Stocking is, can we really call it a 2007 release?

 

It entered the store the same day than 7 other entries from the list, in december

[supercat]

Well, as great as I think Stella's Stocking is, can we really call it a 2007 release?

 

What about Toyshop Trouble, then?

[Cybergoth]

Toyshop Trouble was part of the 2006 poll already.

[Simon]

Hi,

I didn't forget them, but they're disqualified since there's no ROMs available.

Final ROMs aren't available (as far as I know) for Simon's two games, Sync, Stella's Stocking or Melbourne Tatty.

The ROM files of Raster Fahndung are available at http://www.quernhorst.de/atari

 

I have to add the downloads for Encaved, but the PAL file is available from the MiniGameCompo2007 website. It won the second place in the 4k compo.

 

Thanks,

Simon